Mobile government is gaining significant attention worldwide. Mobile phone penetration offers government a number of opportunities, including offering governments services to citizens via these ambiguous devices. This ...

People have tried different ways to make machines intelligent. One option is to use a simulated neural net as a platform for Genetic Algorithms. Neural nets are a combination of neurons in a certain pattern. Neurons in a ...

With the proliferation of mobile devices, provision of M-health care services has become feasible even in the remotest villages of Africa. Research however shows that many M-health initiatives have not been adopted and ...

Local government (LG) is under increasing pressure from the milk industry and consumers regarding their ability and willingness to carry out their mandate with regard to the quality control of milk, especially in the ...

The global, one-world economy has arrived and South Africa is part of it. Business needs to understand the challenge of global competitiveness. This study reflected the prominence of managing diversity in establishing ...

The purpose of this research is to assess the management of discipline by educators in selected secondary schools. There are three major objectives in this study. Firstly, the study sought to examine the major causes of ...

South Africa has a shortage of SMTs with well-honed management skills. SMTs are working under the most difficult conditions, especially during the transformation process in education. They are often not well-prepared for ...

This research project employed action research which is grounded in qualitative methodology in order to address the problem statement and the fundamental research questions. The purposive sampling was found to be effective ...

The central regions of South Africa experienced an abnormally high precipitation during the first quarter of 2009, thus resulting in an unusually high probability of veld fires due to the excessive amounts of fuel / grass ...

Labor is an important factor in the development of the construction industry and
therefore understanding its contribution productivity performance is crucial. This is a
requirement for informed targeted actions that would ...

This study reports the findings of the masters studies on management styles that
are adopted in effective secondary schools and examined how the effect of
participative management styles could positively change the status ...

In this study, the researcher used literature review and empirical investigation to:
* establish management styles that are adopted in both effective and ineffective secondary schools;
* examine the main causes of secondary ...

We investigated strategies employed by teachers in supporting non-isiXhosa speaking primary school learners in
South Africa’s Mthatha district. IsiXhosa is the language of learning and teaching (LOLT) in the schools. ...

Any economy is based on the production and consumption of material or immaterial goods. Development is the process that creates a concise concept of a product. To develop good products within a given frame of time and ...

In South Africa, construction projects still experience non-conformance to quality
requirements as well as cost and schedule overruns to the detriment of clients. For
project success to be attained, conformance to these ...

Church leaders are considered “managers of the household of God” (1 Corinthians 4:1, 2) and responsible to give the transforming message of the gospel its rightful place in the organization of the church as well as in the ...

Church leaders are considered “managers of the household of God” (1 Cor 4: 1, 2) and
responsible to give the transforming message of the gospel its rightful place in the
organization of the church as well as in the broader ...

The link between Academic Development (AD) and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in the
South African Higher education quality context is as blurred as the conceptualisation of the terms. Academic development ...

This paper explores the manipulation of Van der Waals' forces by geometrical parameters in a micro-material handling system. It was observed that the flat-flat interactive surfaces exerted the highest intensity of Van der ...